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application of it. "-CERVANTES. 



Letter from Arthur Hill to the 
Board of Education, Saginaw 
West Side, Mich., on the occa- 
sion of his establishing Four 
Scholarships in the W. S. High 
School, which was in 1901 named 
the Arthur Hill Hi£h School 




Published by The Board of Education 






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To the Board of Trustees of the Union School 
District of the City of Saginaw: 

Gentlemen, — I desire to give present ef- 
fect to a testamentary provision made some 
time since for the erection of certain scholar- 
ships in connection with the High School of 
this district. It was and is my purpose to 
provide four scholarships, one to be conferred 
at the end of each school year upon the grad- 
uate of the High School who ranks highest in 
scholarship in the studies pursued during the 
year when graduated, provided the graduate 
shall have attended the High School two 
years, and shall notify the trustees of a desire 
to pursue a course of study in the University 
of Michigan. The rank or standing of the 
graduates is to be fixed by a vote of the ma- 
jority of the Board of Trustees, and the 



scholarships conferred in a like manner. Such 
scholarships shall entitle the holders to re- 
ceive the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars 
each year for the term of four years from the 
date when conferred, payment thereof being 
made one-half at the beginning and one-half 
at the middle of the college year. But, to be 
entitled to these payments the student must 
enter the University of Michigan and continue 
to pursue there a course of studies equivalent 
in educational value in the judgment of the 
Faculty to what is termed a "regular" course. 
Should the gradaute upon whom the scholar- 
ship is conferred either fail to promptly enter 
the University, or having entered, leave it, 
or not pursue the prescribed course of study, 
then the payments of all moneys on account 
of the scholarship to the holder of the scholar- 
ship shall cease. If not more than two years 
have expired since the scholarship was con- 
ferred, then for the remainder of the term of 
four years the Board of Trustees shall pay at 



the rate of two hundred and fifty dollars each 
year to the graduate who ranked next to the 
one on whom the scholarship was conferred, 
but upon the same terms and conditions as to 
payment as is provided in the case of the 
holder of the scholarship, as awarded. 

A temporary break or interruption in col- 
lege work is not to deprive a student of the 
right to the scholarship fund, and the Board 
of Trustees are expected to act leniently and 
with due consideration in such cases. It is 
intended that these scholarships shall be 
open alike to young men and young women, 
and that the course of study to be pursued in 
the University may be either literary, profes- 
sional or technical. 

Reserving the right to alter these condi- 
tions as to details, I hereby bind myself to 
pay to the Union School District of the City 
of Saginaw, the sum herein provided to be 
paid on account of the four scholarships to 
be established hereunder, which scholarships 



are to be originally conferred at the end of the 
High School years in 1894, 1895, 1896 and 
1897, and are each to be reconferred every 
four years thereafter. It was my first thought 
that these scholarships should be given only 
to those students who wished to secure a 
higher education, and who in the judgment of 
the Board of Trustees lacked the necessary 
financial means. After full consideration I 
decided not to so limit the awards. As the 
provision now stands it seems to furnish to 
the well-to-do that incentive which always 
goes with competitive effort, as well as giving 
financial aid to those who both need and de- 
serve it, with no sting of humiliation. 

It is not assumed that the sum here pro- 
vided is sufficient to carry a student through 
the University, but I feel that it at least opens 
the doors of that institution to every earnest 
and capable boy and girl in our schools, and 
once within, by the practice of that self-help 
and self-denial which are at the base of all 



worthy success, they may pass out with 
diplomas. 

The scholarship to be awarded in 1894 
and quadrennially thereafter I would desig- 
nate as "The John Moore Scholarship," to 
connect with it the name of our distinguished 
townsman, who took part in the government 
of our schools for nearly twenty years, cover- 
ing practically the entire formative period. 
During this time he gave to the cause of local 
education ithe constant aid of those command- 
ing talents which have carried his name and 
fame to the uttermost limits of our state, and 
beyond. Elected an officer of the school dis- 
trict in 1851, when it employed but one 
teacher, with a school attendance of only 55 
pupils, he assisted first in making our schools 
free by abolishing the rate bill, then common 
in this state; next in erecting the first union 
school building, in those days a model of its 
kind, and establishing an appropriate course 
of study. 



In 1865 he aided in framing and assisting 
in the passage of that excellent act of the 
Michigan legislature, under which the affairs 
of the district are placed in the exclusive con- 
trol of trustees chosen from the city at large. 
Under this act the existing system of instruc- 
tion was adopted, covering a period of twelve 
years, divided into the primary, grammar and 
high-school courses of four years each. In 
1870, the year when the first class graduated 
from our high school, in the great Central 
building costing $70,000, and equal at that 
time to any in the state, the time had at last 
come when he might fitly lay down his mod- 
est, useful office. But with that perfect loy- 
alty which marks his attachment to every 
chosen friend and cause, his interest and his 
pride in our public schools are undiminished. 
So let us all hope that he may live to see the 
scholarship which bears his name again and 
again conferred. 

The scholarship to be awarded in 1895 



and quadrennially thereafter I would desig- 
nate as "The Wells-Stone Scholarship," to 
continue in perpetual association the names 
of Charles W. Wells and Farnam C. Stone 
around whose open graves we have lately and 
with such sadness gathered. A graceful and 
grateful pen has fitly applied to them the one 
consoling verse in the beautiful lament over 
Saul and Jonathan, "They were lovely and 
pleasant in their lives, and in their death they 
were not divided." Plain men of business, 
they were yet princely in their getting and in 
their giving, and though intensely occupied, 
they had equally that royal quality of having 
always time and temper to hear and gener- 
ously deal with every public and every private 
appeal. 

I had planned to attach to the scholar- 
ships only the names of those who had been 
directly connected with our public schools. 
Farnam C. Stone died a diligent and devoted 
member of your board and so came within 



my first intention. But I could not — would 
not, even here sever it from that of his all but 
brother, and my much prized friend, Charles 
W. Wells. 

The scholarship to be awarded in 1896 
and quadrennially thereafter, I would desig- 
nate as "The Alonzo L. Bingham Scholar- 
ship," giving to it the name of that veteran 
teacher and veteran soldier who in both fields 
did such honorable service. He was my 
teacher during the last years of my attend- 
ance at the city schools, and to my great ad- 
vantage. His methods were not of the mod- 
ern "advanced" type, but they were thorough 
and they were exact and exacting, as to all 
the fundamentals of a sound, common school 
education. He impressed the love of learning 
on every pupil through his great earnestness, 
and constantly incited to effort. In 1862, 
when the Union cause in the great civil war 
looked darkest, though middle-aged he raised 
a company and led it to the front, and, as the 



army rolls show, was four times wounded. 
But with that tenacity which we who knew 
him understood, he did not lay down his 
sword until the enemy's flag was lowered. 
When his long life peacefully ended last win- 
ter, a corps of his old scholars showed their 
love for him by assisting at his obsequies, 
and it is as one of these, and in behalf of them 
all, that I thus seek to commemorate his 
name. 

The scholarship to be awarded in 1897, 
and quadrennially thereafter, I wish to desig- 
nate as "The Otto Roeser Scholarship," to 
give recognition to the rare claim to remem- 
brance of one who loved and served our 
schools, our scholars and our teachers with a 
personal devotion, which in his last hours was 
both pathetic and inspiring. Associated with 
him for the last five years of his membership 
of the Board of Trustees, I came to know how 
he loved literature, how tender was his heart, 



and how refined his tastes, lighted as they 
were with the play of wit and fancy. In his 
person he illustrated the gentler and more 
elevated side of that strong race of men who 
have come to our shores from the great Ger- 
man fatherland. And I know that if he is 
sentient now, there is no public association 
of his name which would so please him as to 
connect it with our annual graduating exer- 
cises, with the music and the flowers in which 
he found such fine delight, and the gathered 
youth, with eager, glowing faces. And so it 
shall be. 

I have attempted here, gentlemen, to do 
homage to friendship, and to unselfish public 
service, but this is only incidental to my de- 
sire to quicken the intellectual pulse of the 
youth of the city which has been my home 
from early boyhood. And I trust it will not 
be deemed unbecoming when I say that, 
whether the days that lie before me be many 
or be few, there enters into them with this 



act a singular serenity, growing out of the 
nature of the thing done. 

Looking forward, I see from time to time, 
some humble scholar — and true scholars are 
humble, all — with eyes lifted across these 
scholarships to that lofty mountainpeak of 
learning, our great state University, and I see 
that scholar, having higher aims, gaining 
higher ends. 

Not that scholastic learning is everything, 
for the chiefest attribute to a complete nature 
is a heart generous beyond mere giving. But 
the student who goes up to one of our great 
seats of learning becomes one of the heirs of 
the best thoughts of the best men of all the 
ages, and both mind and heart are enriched 
thereby. And the student meets there the in- 
tellectual elite of the nation. Friendships are 
formed which endure as long as life, and to 
consort on equal terms with these choice 
spirits develops chivalry, humanity, as well as 
intellectual brightness. 



The field of university teaching contin- 
ually broadens, so that today the leading me- 
chanical arts are taught in all their essentials 
and, moving along these new paths, the stu- 
dent constantly finds new sources of an hon- 
orable livelihood. 

And so it is that, year by year, when the 
mellow October days shall come, I have the 
hope that some bright-faced young man, or 
sweet, clear-eyed young woman, will have 
found in this modest provision an inspiration 
and a purpose and will enter the college por- 
tals to their great and lasting gain. 

If this shall be, then, in their persons I 
shall tread the old halls again and, garbed in 
perpetual youth, shall realize my present 
dream of immortality. 

Yours respectfully, 

ARTHUR HILL. 
Saginaw, December 25, 1893. 



In a letter written from Paris, France, 
May 29th, 1900, to the President of the Board 
of Education, Mr. Hill made the following 
interpretations supplementing his letter of 
dedication as to the awarding of the scholar- 
ships : 

"I intended the scholarships to be con- 
ferred only on students who in good faith 
pursued in the ordinary manner the usual 
course of study for the last two years of the 
high school course in our city. This was 
without reference to previous residence, or 
even the present place of abode. By 'good 
faith, I mean I would not think it right to 
confer a scholarship on a foreign student who 
prepared for the University in the studies 
naturally covered by the last two years of our 
high school course, and then entered our 
school with a view to the scholarship, without 
a fair contest for it. 

By 'provided the candidate shall have at- 



tended the high school two years/ I mean pur- 
sue our course of study in serious competi- 
tion with classmates. 

A scholarship is not offered as a reward 
to one, so much as a stimulus to all, and to 
forestall the result by indirection would de- 
feat the effect sought, and look much like in- 
justice." 



Extract from Will of Hon. Arthur Hill as to 
SCHOLARSHIPS. 

I direct my executors and trustees to pay 
to the Union School District of the City of 
Saginaw (West Side), Michigan, the sum of 
twenty-five thousand ($25,000) dollars, which 
sum I give and bequeath to it, subject to all 
the conditions in relation thereto in this Will 
made, in trust and to be kept separate and 
distinct from any and all other funds of the 
Union School District, and to be divided into 
four separate and permanent funds of six 
thousand two hundred fifty ($6,250.00) dollars 
each, to be invested or loaned so as to yield 
an annual income or revenue, the income of 
which shall be devoted to the establishment 
and maintenance of four (4) scholarships in 
the high school of Union District, Saginaw, 
Michigan. In the event of their being any 



change in the school district of the west side, 
this legacy shall still be recognized and en- 
forcable as a legacy to establish scholarships 
in the high school, or school preparatory for 
college and a part of the public school system 
of the City of Saginaw, West Side. One 
scholarship shall be awarded at the end of 
each school year to the graduate of said school 
who has attended said school for the term of 
two years, and ranks highest in the studies 
pursued during the year when he graduated, 
according to ithe determination of a majority 
of the Board of Trustees or other public of- 
ficers having control of said school, who ex- 
presses the intention to pursue a collegiate 
education at the University of Michigan. The 
award of said scholarship shall entitle the 
student upon whom it is conferred to receive 
the income of one of said funds for the period 
of four (4) consecutive years, as follows : 
One-half of said yearly income upon the pay- 
ment of the fees of entry by said student in 



the University each year, and one-half of said 
yearly income at the middle of each college 
year, but to entitle the student to said income, 
a course of study must be pursued in the 
University equivalent to the studies of a reg- 
ular course, and the faculty of the University 
shall determine the equivalency. The scholar- 
ships created are to be open alike to young 
men and young women, and are to entitle the 
holder to pursue either a literary, professional 
or technical course in the University. 

Should the student to whom the scholar- 
ship was awarded, fail to enter the University, 
or, having entered, by reason of death, gradu- 
ation, or from any other cause, cease to pur- 
sue the course of study herein prescribed, then 
the right of said student to the income of said 
scholarship fund shall terminate and the in- 
come of said fund for the remainder of the 
term of four years from the date of the orig- 
inal award shall be added to that particular 
fund to increase the amount of the permanent 



fund, provided, however, that if two or more 
years shall remain of the four (4) years for 
which the scholarship was awarded, then the 
income of said fund for the unexpired portion 
of the term of four (4) years shall be paid to 
the graduate of said school during the year 
when said scholarship was awarded, ranking, 
according to the determination of the Board 
of Trustees or public officers, next to the stu- 
dent to whom it was awarded, upon the same 
terms and conditions as to payment, and in 
case such student shall not enter and then be 
in the University, the income of said fund for 
the remainder of the four years may be paid 
to some graduate of said school who is pur- 
suing studies in the University, and who, ac- 
cording to the judgment of said trustees or 
public officers, needs and is deserving of fi- 
nancial aid. A temporary break in the studies 
of a student holding a scholarship because of 
sickness or any other cause where it appears 
to the trustees or public officers unavoidable, 



and that the student intends in good faith to 
continue the course, shall not terminate the 
right of the student to such income while en- 
gaged in said studies. 

It is the general intention of this clause 
to provide that each year a graduate from the 
high school aforesaid shall become entitled by 
reason of superior scholarship to the income 
of six thousand two hundred fifty ($6,250.00) 
dollars for the term of four (4) years upon the 
conditions above stated, which income should 
be sufficient, with due economy, and a prac- 
tice of that self-help which develops energy 
of character, to put our University within the 
reach of any member of the graduating class, 
and this bequest is made in the hope that it 
will carry with it to the scholars of said school 
an increase of zeal and industry, and help to 
furnish to diligent and deserving young men 
and women an incentive to, and a portion of 
the means necessary for a higher education. 

Should any members of said school be 



members of said University at the time of my 
decease under scholarships temporarily erect- 
ed by me in said school, they are to each re- 
ceive the income of one of the funds herein 
bequeathed under the same terms and condi- 
tions as though my Will were in effect at the 
time of their entry into the University and 
they had been awarded scholarships as pro- 
vided herein. 



**"yOU will do the greatest service 
-*■ to the State, if you raise, not 
the roofs of the houses, but the souls of 
the citizens: for it is better that great 
souls should dwell in small houses 
rather than for mean slaves to lurk in 
great houses. "-EPICTETUS. 



SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED 



Scholarship 

John Moore 

Wells-Stone .... ... 

Alonzo L. Bingham . 

Otto Roeser 

John Moore 

Wells-Stone 

Alonzo L. Bingham. 

Otto Roeser 

John Moore 

Wells-Stone 

Alonzo L. Bingham . , 

Otto Roeser 

John Moore 

Wells-Stone 

Alonzo L. Bingham . . 

Otto Roeser 

John Moore 

John Moore 

Wells-Stone 

Alonzo L. Bingham . . 
Otto Roeser 



When Awarded 



June 



Feb. 
June 



21, 
20, 
18, 
24, 
21, 
23, 
22, 
20, 
26, 
25, 
23, 
29, 
21. 
20, 
25, 
24, 
23, 

1, 
24, 
20, 
26, 



94. 

95 . 

96. 

97.. 

98.. 

99.. 

00.. 

01.. 

02.. 

03.. 

04.. 

05.. 

06.. 

07. 

08.. 

09.. 

10.. 

12.. 

11. 

12... 

13.. 



To Whom Awarded 



Esther Braley 
Winifred Hubbell 
Lavinia Fruechtel 
Maud Hudson 
Edith Scheurman 
Leslie B. Dickinson 
Genevieve Purmort 
Geo. H. McLellan 
Frederick C. Morgan 
Louise Reimold 
Ottilia Grauer 
Maurice J. Quinn 
Chester H. Biesterfeld 
Elizabeth Marlat 
Sophia M. Moiles 
Mildred M. Orr 
Lillie Brown 
Helen O'Leary 
Woodward A. Warrick 
Florence C. Gerber 
Malcolm Sheltraw 



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